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THE 



MIND'S JUBILEE, 

7 

A SKETCH: 



WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Companion of Religion; %here she came, 

I'lune Freedom canie; wlieie dwelt, there Freedom dwelt; 

Ituled where she ruled ; expirtd where she expired. 

POLLOK. 



PHIIi ADEI.PHIA ! 

GEORGE, I- A T I M E R & Co. 

No. 13 So. Fourth Stieut. 

Printed by Wm. F. Geddes, ISo. 9 Library Street. 

MDCCCXXXIX. 









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Entered according to Act of Congress in the Clerk's Office 
of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, May 1, 1834, by Wm. 
F. Geddes. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The idea of **The Mind's Jubilee" is referable 
to the pleasure which must be felt, and the anticipa- 
tions which must be cherished in the bosom of the 
Christian whilst enjoying the privileg-e of being- pre- 
sent at the anniversaries of our evangelical insti- 
tutions. 

The writer's object in the presentation of the Sketch 
is the benefit of those by whom it may be read, — and, 
through them, that of those who have hitherto been 
strangers to that freedom of the mind which only the 
influence of the Gospel can give. He does not sup- 
pose that this will be effected directly by the 
agency of the Sketch. He contemplates the reader 
as having a mind unclouded by moral ignorance, un- 
perverted by infidel scepticism, unchained by papal 
infallibility, — a mind free to act in reference to sub- 
jects worthy of its noble powers, and connected 
with its future destiny. He has, therefore, merely 
suggested themes for thought,— themes such as in for- 
mer ages engrossed the minds of eminently holy 



4 INTRODUCTIOir. 

men, — men with whom, as regarded the object 
which was the spirit of their themes, The Most 
High condescended to be familiar. 

In accordance with this object, the writer has 
had particularly in view the requisitions of the Sab- 
bath school system, and the facilities which its libra- 
ries furnish for exciting and cherishing the spirit of 
missions. In reference to these facilities, his aim has 
been to adapt the Sketch to the mental character of 
the young inquirer; and he will be truly gratified if 
he shall have thus contributed, in any measure, to 
the means of promoting inquiry in regard to the 
great object which, it is unquestionable, ought to 
occupy a distinguished place in the affections of 
every Christian, — an object, the absence of which 
from any system of religious instruction, would render 
such system essentially defective. 

The subjects of the Sketch, it will be perceived, 
are but lightly touched; this was designed, in order 
that they might be drawn out by the reflection and the 
judgment, and exhibited in the feelings and the con- 
duct of the recipients to whom the Sketch is offered. 
They are subjects which, as correlative, would con- 
stitute a theme too copious, too rich, and too high 
for the writer's pen, unpractised in the chief of the 
sister arts. In the form of expression peculiar to 
this art, it doubtless miglit be advantageously pre- 
sented to some elevated minds which may yet need 
to be enlightened with regard to the proper applica- 



INTROUDCTIOir. 5 

tlon of their energies. Such a service may be appro- 
priate to, and is expected of him who some years ago 
said to the indebted world, and to the approving 
Church, 

" I heard seven thunders uttering their voices, 
And wrote what they did utter; but 'tis seal'd 
Within the volume of my heart, where thoughts, 
Unbodied yet in vocal words, await 
The quickening warmth of poesy to bring 
Their forms to light. 

* * * * * ^ * 

The world as it hath been in ages past; 
The world as now it is; the world to come, 
Far as the eye of Prophecy can pierce; 
These I beheld; and still in Memory's rolls 
They have their pages and their pictures; these 
Another day a nobler song may show."* 

The writer of tlie Sketch has not unfrequently ob- 
served, that among professors of religion, a defi- 
ciency both of knowledge and of interest with re- 
gard to the world's conversion, is an extensively pre- 
vailing evil, — and also, that a dangerous apathy in 
view of the operations of the papal policy is not only 
generally indulged, but by many most fearfully che- 
rished and commended. It is thus manifest, that a 
large number of Christians are criminally regardless 
of the peculiar responsibilities of their high vocation 
as they were most emphatically announced by our 

*" Pelican Island." By James Montgomery, esq., 1827 

A 2 



) INTROBUCTIOBT. 

blessed Lord — "Ye are the salt of the earth! — Ye 
are the light of the world !" These evils appear still 
more deeply shaded when they are considered in 
connexion with the facts, — that the means of infor- 
mation are abundant and accessible by every inquir- 
er; that all the subjects of the Sketch have, for years, 
unremittingly and in a vast variety of forms been 
presented to the Church, and that for this purpose 
the services of men of appropriate talents have been 
held in constant requisition, and these with the elo- 
quence of 

*' Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn," 
have endeavoured to awaken the minds of the profess- 
ed followers of the world's Redeemer. All these 
means have been, and continue to be held subser- 
vient to Immanuel's glory in promoting the increase 
and extension, the beauty and strength of Zion; and 
yet comparatively but few hearts vibrate in harmony 
with the exalted theme. 

This result, together with the conviction that in 
relation to the subject, originality of thought, or 
mode of expression, was impracticable, would seem 
to have uttered to the writer a forbidding mandate, 
and to have deterred him from associating this hum- 
ble attempt with the many more energetic efforts of 
his more efficient brethren, to touch the ears and 
move the hearts of Zion's slumberers. He is, never- 
theless, encouraged by the obvious and cheering 
fact, that the Spirit of Christ does possess, and ani- 



INTUODUCTION. I 

mate, and actuate the souls of a very considerable 
number of the Lord's disciples; and that the in- 
fluence, and the prayers, and the liberalities of this 
sacred band have been Divinely blest, and have ex- 
tended, and are extending " a savour of life unto 
life," which shall ultimately be felt and enjoyed 
*'faras the curse is found." 

That the objects of the Divinely taught petition, 
*'Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, in earth as it 
is in heaven," will be reahzed, is not a matter of 
speculation. The covenant promise of the Almighty 
Father to his atoning Son, *' Ask of me, and I shall 
give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the 
uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession," is 
irrevocable, and must be fulfilled; "Not by might, 
nor by power; but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of 
hosts." Not by physical coercion, nor by a special 
miracle, — but doubtless, according to the economy of 
his grace, through instrumentalities Divinely ordain- 
ed, — agencies to which He himself will give his sanc- 
tion "in demonstration of the Spirit and power." 

He who hath eyes to see and ears to hear, must 
even now perceive, that ** Out of Zion the perfection 
of beauty God has shined !" Already enough is man- 
ifest to furnish a practical illustration of the pro- 
phetic announcement, "In this mountain shall the 
Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat 
things, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full 
of marrow, of wine on the lees well refined." 



ISTTRODUCTIOIT. 



In view of these lights and shades of the Church, 
and in consideration of the certainty of all that the 
word of God affirms concerning* the world's jubilee 
and the future glory of ImmanuePs kingdom; and 
persuaded that no Christian effort to facilitate these 
results, however minute or feeble such effort may 
seem, will be entirely fruitless, the writer has dedi- 
cated the Sketch to the cause of the blessed Re- 
deemer; and to the friends of that cause, he now 
offers it with feelings of cordiality and Christian af- 
fection. 

He will only further remark, that with regard to 
facts which occurred from the time when the Empe- 
ror Constantine, in the beginning of the fourth cen- 
tury, supplanted paganism in the Roman empire by 
the adoption of Christianity, until the commence- 
ment of the Reformation by Luther and his coadju- 
tors, in the beginning of the sixteenth, chronological 
arrangement has been disregarded. This was deem- 
ed expedient, as even allusion to all the errors, here- 
sies, innovations, assumptions^ and enormities of 
which that lengthened period of shadows, clouds, 
and darkness was exuberant was im-practicable. Of 
the doings of that protracted night which so dismally 
involved the Church, disclosures have been made by 
historians. These should certainly, and especially at 
this time, claim the attention of Protestant Chris- 
tians. They are indeed records of facts, in recurring 
to which the soul must recoil with horror; vet, hor- 



INTRODUCTIOK. 



rible as such facts actually were, it is important, that 
by an acquaintance with them, Christians should 
know what were, and what must necessarily be the 
effects of the ascendency of a system which not only 
claims for itself universal domination, but also exclu- 
sive infallibility as its all controling attribute. This 
knowledge is essential in order to induce the Chris- 
tian to be watchful of this invariable and inexorable 
foe to the freedom of the mind; and also as a prepa- 
ration for resisting", with all moral means, the insinuat- 
ing advances and ultimate nefarious designs of the 
** Man of Sin" in this our yet free and favoured 
country, — a country for the preservation of the civil 
and religious liberties of which our fathers nobly 
toiled, and bled, and even dared to die. 

The cruelties and devastations which were com- 
mitted by the Northern hordes in their incursions in 
the Roman empire were truly terrific. But it should 
be considered that the minds of these Goths, Van- 
dals, &c., were in the darkness of paganism. To 
them was unknown the Gospel of peace and salva- 
tion. Their's was tjie outrage of intellectual and 
moral ignorance. This was not the case of those 
Roman pontiffs, who, with the Bible in their hands, 
presumptuously ravaged the kingdom of Christ. 
Professing to be distinguished apostles of the Lord 
Jesus, they polluted his altar, and were the murder- 
ers of his saints. Omar's conflagrating of the Alex- 
andrian library was an atrocity which doubtless in- 



10 INTRODUCTION. 

juriously affected the interests of the human mind. 
But the perversion, and ultimately the suppression 
of the Oracles of God by the Roman pontiffs were 
acts adapted to facilitate the everlasting perdition of 
souls; and, according to the declarations of these 
same Oracles, direct, profane, and damning sacrilege! 
The detail and comparison need not be pursued. 
These are subjects of higher record; and the day is 
coming when the inhabitants of all worlds will 
doubtless witness disclosures more terrible than can 
now be known, — deeds more dreadful than history 

has told, — 

" Vile, unrepented deeds, 
Now unrepentable for evertnoie !" 

With these remarks, the writer commits the 
Sketch to the care of Him who, whilst he sways the 
sceptre of universal empire, is not indifferent to the 
sparrow's flight. Like the dove which from the ark 
was sent forth into a desolated world, should this lit- 
tle messenger of hope be favoured to bring from a 
vast moral waste even bvit one olive branch into the 
Church of Christ, its author will not alone have occa- 
sion to rejoice with thankfulness. 

WELWOOD. 
May 1, 1834. ^ . 



ANALYSIS Of THE SKETCH. 



Invocation. The Mind — its origin, reduction, powers, worth, 
and destinies; provision for its relief. Divine Love. Re- 
velation of Mercy. Redeemer's advent, atonement. Apos- 
tles commissioned, first preaching of the Gospel, its pro- 
gress and effects. Primitive Christianity. Satan's enmity. 
Regal honors of the Church. Satan's temptation of Christ. 
Legitimate results of primitive piety. Carnal professors. 
Papal innovations and assumptions. Priestcraft. I ncur- 
sions of the Northern hordes. Superstition's withering 
influence. State of rehgion. Prayer for the Church, — its 
Divine preservation. Wickliff; the Bible; Satan's rage. 
Papal power and atrocities. Waldenses. Satan's alliance 
with the Papacy. His forces and ferocity. The Church 
in gloom, Satan's discomfiture. Divine interposition. 
Facilities for evangelical enterprise disclosed. Power of 
Truth. Luther. The Pope's resources. The Reforma- 
tion. Satan's power enfeebled- Pledge of the Truth's ex- 
tension. Progress of the Gospel. Satan's adherents. 
Effects of the Reformation. Defects of the Church; its 
prospects. Dawn of a brighter age. Prophetic anticipa- 
tions realized. Blessings for the heathen; their claims. 
Christian efforts of the American Church. Concert of 
prayer. Sabbath-schools auxihary to Missions. Results 
of Missions anticipated. Restoration of the Jews. Evan- 
gehzation of Asia, &c-, of all Islands, of Africa, Relief 
for deluded pilgrims. Joyful results of the Gospel's sue- 



12 AXALTSIS. 

cess. Brightening prospect- Prophetic assurances. Bi- 
ble, and preaching in heathen lands — tracts — schools. Ef- 
fects anticipated. The Gospel's blessings; — to those who 
send it to the destitute; — its future conquests in Europe, — 
in our Western hemisphere, — in our own country. South 
America unevangelized; its claims; its condition; its reno- 
vation anticipated. Christian vocation. Religion, false, and 
true. Christian ministers; their sanctification, sacred cha- 
racter, fraternity, national vocation. Papal ascendency de- 
precated. Watchfulness of Christians. Revival implored* 
Men in power Infidelity deprec;\ted. The Redeemer's 
triumph. 



THE MIND'S JUBILEE, 



A SKETCH. 



Companion of Religion,— where she came, 

There Freedom came ; where dwelt, there Freedom dwelt ; 

Ruled where she ruled ; expired where she expired. 

POLLOK. 



O THOU the Source of ligh^ Eteritai. One! 
With joy and gratitude before thy throne 
Thy servants bow, in one high purpose join'd, 
To hold a hallow'd jubilee of Mind; 
Exalted Sayiouu deign to smile benign. 
And own the work we celebrate as thine; 
Thy Spihit grant in every heart to dwell. 
And feelings adverse to the theme dispel. 

When Wisdom Infinite the Mind produced, 
In His own likeness then, tho' now reduced, — 
Then when the Spirit into being sprang. 
The sons of God — the stars of morning sang; 



14 THB MI5rD*S JUBILEK. 

But fiends malig-nant vlew'd the scene with pain, 
And sought by guile the virgin soul to stain; 
By Satan's wiles its bright career was check'd. 
Its lustre tarnish'd and its glory wreck'd. 

Capacious Mind, ordain'd by God's decree. 
To sway the sceptre o'er earth, air and sea; 
With light intrinsic Nature's realm to scan. 
And lay her treasures at the feet of man j 
To grasp the orbs that gem her azure dome. 
And with the planets thro' their circles roam; 
With energy of thought to soar sublime, 
And visit scenes beyond the bounds of time. 

The Soul, — its worth what finite tongue can tell ! 
The Soul, — to sing in heaven or groan in hell ! 
Lit by the breath of God, th' immortal fire 
Unquench'd will glow when suns and worlds expire; 
The conscious Spirit then in gloom will glare. 
Intelligent of woe and deep despair; — 
Or blissful shine, redeem'd from all its stains. 
Of grace a trophy, where Immanuel reigns. 

As when Earth linger'd in the womb of Night, 

*• God said — I^et there be light! — and there was light," 

And harmony and beauty to adorn, 

And animate and bless primeval morn; 



THE mind's jubilee. 15 

So when the world the night of sin o'erspread. 
And all man's moral excellence was dead, 
'Twas then a ray of Everlasting Love, 
With plastic power did o'er the ruin move 

Hail, Love! — the wonder of the hosts of heaven. 
Love which to rebel men relief has given; 
When Death held dread dominion o'er the race, 
From God estranged and banish'd in disgrace; 
Then midst the darkness Mercy's star appear'd, 
Brightness of Glory Infinite; — it cheer'd 
The desolation vast, — its mild control 
Illumed andsway'd the chaos of the Soul. 

In Eden first this hope-inspiring star, 
Our primal parents saw, but saw afar; 
Then beaming brighter thro' each following age, 
Its radiance glow'd in many a prophet's page, 
Till that high day by covenant purpose seal'd. 
When God its splendour to the world reveal'd; 
Then from the grasp of Death fell Satan's rod, 
And hell's dread power confess'd the Son of God. 

New glories veil'd the Everlasting Throne, 
And joy unfelt before on high was known; 
The angels flew with song the world to greet, 
And tell the tidings of the foe's defeat; 



16 THE mind's jubilee. 

Their theme was "Peace on earth, to men good will," 
Grace emanant thro' Christ from Zion's hill: 
The minstrelsy of heaven thus sweet and kind. 
Announced a joyful jubilee of Mind. 

Great was the work the Saviour wrought for man. 
When he fulfill'd Redemption's wondrous plan; 
He met the wrath of heaven by Justice hurl'd. 
And purchased pardon for a guilty world! 
The spotless victim unresisting stood, 
And paid the price — his agony and blood! 
Then from the terror and from death he rose. 
With power to reconcile or crush his foes. 

Grace relgn'd thro' righteousness by Christ the Lord, 

His sword and sceptre God's eternal Word: 

Go ! — said Immanuel to a chosen band, 

The tidings tell in every rebel land; 

Go ! — and salvation free to men proclaim,— 

Light, life and peace in my Almighty Name; 

He who the gift of God accepts unbind, 

And cast away the fetters of the mind. 

First to the field where Christ victorious bled, 
With power endow'd, his willing servants sped; 
There midst the rage and malice of his foes. 
Where Calvary rises and where Kedron flows, — 



THE MIWd's jubilee. 17 



There near the sacred place— Gethsemene, 
Where oft the Saviour suppliant bow'd the knee, 
There the^first trophies of the Cross were won — 
Souls freed from sin by God's eternal Son. 



Onward thro' persecution's direful storm. 
They urg-ed their way their^'mission to perform; 
Nor Jews profane nor Caesar's potent^sword, 
Could stay the conquests of th' Almighty Word; 
Tho' Satan's hosts with all their force assail'd. 
The power of Jesus o'er the foe prevail'd; 
Truth touch'd the Mind and idols prostrate fell. 
Nor stood the mig-hty shock the gates of hell. 

Then'multiplied the messengers of Truth; 
Wisdom in age, and'zeal in ardent youth. 
And master minds^from moral darkness free, 
Were consecrated by Divine decree; 
These in the pathway which th' apostles trod. 
Went o'er the world and preach'd the love of God; 
The Holy Spirit nerved their^ieart and tongue. 
And numerous converts God's^high praises sung. 

Adorn'd with grace, the^Church in beauty shone, 
Jesus triumphant sat on Zion's throne; 
Tho' oft his saints by impious hands were slain. 
They, like their Leader, fell to rise again; 
B 2 



18 THE mind's jubilee. 

Faithful and fearless in the cause Divine, 
They bled, they died, by Him approved to shine; 
From mental darkness, sin and death released, 
Their's was the martyr's crown when conflict ceased. 

Whilst rising glorious thus, the gospel day 
Refulgent, chased the baleful clouds away: 
But Satan's wrath was roused, he felt the stroke, 
His head was bruised, but not his spirit broke; 
As when at first in Paradise he saw 
Man's blest subjection to Jehovah's law. 
He envied and devised to blight the joy. 
So now he plann'd Christ's kingdom lo destroy. 

He saw, exulting with malicious mirth, 
One strange event of unauspicious birth, — 
'Twas the polluted ensign of the world 
O'er the Redeemer's banner wide unfurl'd, — 
Imposing signal of returning gloom, — 
The withering upas to religion's bloom; 
The crafty demon in its shade conceal'd, 
Gain'd free access to the forbidden field . 



With cautious policy the foe began, 
Deceit he knew lurk'd in the heart of man; 
Time was when he, ascendency to gain. 
In God's Anointed sought it, but in vain. 



THE mind's jubilee. 19 

Earth's king-doms and their glory brought to view. 
And proffer'd all for homage claim'd as due; 
'Twas then the fiend who dared with God to vie, 
Fled the rebuke of Christ's consuming eye. 

Whilst the fair Bride redeem'd by Jesus' blood. 
Confiding only in her Saviour stood, 
Then, tho' her enemies with furious spite, 
Strove to destroy her fame and quench her light. 
Clear as the sun and as the moon-beam mild. 
She rose serene amidst the tempest wild; 
Her power was felt, — her foes confess'd her sway. 
Sought her embrace and cast their yoke away. 

Long had the pagan world to Satan sold 

The freedom of the Mind for pomp and gold. 

And gaudy pageantry and orgies foul. 

Kept in degrading vassalage the Soul; 

Till Rome's great prince profess'd to mar the chain, 

And give the Mind its native rights again? 

'Twas then the Church received a gorgeous wreath. 

Wrought of the elements of moral death. 

By regal hands with graceless garlands crown'd, 
Christianity innumerous votaries found; 
Not in the unsoil'd robe by Jesus given— 
His righteousness, the dress admired in heavenj 



20 THE miis^d's jubilee. 

Not thus would they confess her birth Divine, 
But carnal homage offer'd at her shrine; 
In their false hearts the prince of darkness reign'd, 
Whilst vain oblations God's pure altar stain'd. 

Thus was the Church insidiously betray'd, 
Thus did the world her sacred courts invade; 
Her ministers whose faith the shock survived, 
Still fed the flock with food from God derived; 
But wolves had enter'd in disguise as sheep, 
And hirelings sought the Shepherd's fold to keep; 
Ambition govern'd, Emulation strove. 
And Pride usurp'd the hallow'd throne of Love. 

In angel form the arch deceiver view'd 

The desecration, and his work pursued; 

With priests corrupt he artfully communed, 

Who God's own word and institutes impugn'd. 

As from Immanuel, forged traditions taught, 

And seal'd the fraud with lying wonders wrought. 

From dying men the sinner's Refuge took. 

And closed with hands defiled Truth's precious book. 

Pontiffs the seat and power of God assumed, 
Crime sanctified and saints to torments doom'd, 
Bargain'd the bliss of heaven, and men might buy 
Release from guilt for sins of deepest dye; 



THE MIND S JUBILEE. 



To fix th' imposture and extend the trade, 
Instead of heathen gods, new idols madej 
Men bow'd in bondage, blind in heart as stones, 
And worship'd pictures, images and bones. 



Christ the true medium to the Throne of Grace, 
Deny'dto men, the priest assumed his place; 
No penitent to Jesus' blood might come, 
But seek remission in the rites of Rome; 
The Truth was banish'd from the papal throne. 
And Virtue thence had long* discarded flown; 
Enchantment's spell and hell's pestiferous breath 
Spread wide delusion, blasphemy and death. 



Th' imperial mistress, famed in every clime, 
Seduced by l^ixury and debased by crime, 
Her prowess barter'd for Delusion's shield. 
And took with monks and friars th' inglorious field; 
Whilst from the North the floods resistless roll'd. 
And barbarous hordes the pride of Rome control'd; 
But priestcraft dexterous in nefarious storms, 
Adopted pagan rites as Christian forms. 

Then Science, 'reft of Revelation, fled, 
Afraid her lamp to trim among the dead; 
The Arts and Literature with sickly phase. 
Shrunk from Suspicion's rude repulsive gaze; 



22 THE MTNU'S JtJBILEE. 

Whilst Superstition, deck'd with gold, enshrined, 
Claim'd ghostly subjugation of the Mind; 
All— all was dismal ! earth with hell agreed 
To crush the Church and crown the serpent's seed. 



As if some constellation in the sky, -. 
Convulsed, the stars their proper stations fly. 
And as by supernatural warfare driven, 
But dimly shine in different parts of heaven; 
So God's own Church, by Jesus Christ redeem'd, 
Rent by misrule profane, but faintly gleam'd; 
Tho' scatter'd in the dense expanse of night, 
Glow'd some lone orbs of pure celestial light. 

Unnoticed, saints apart in secret sigh'd. 
To see the swellings of corruption's tide, ■ 
And supplications oft to God prefer'd. 
Nor was the prayer of faith by Him unheard; 
He who was present once his Church to save. 
Amidst the deluge on its highest wave. 
Beheld the flood— the foe uncheck'd encroach. 
And said — Thus far, nor farther dare approach. 

'Tis when the prayer of faith to heaven ascends, 
Grace to sustain afilicted saints descends; 
And thus the troubled Church, when billows roU'd, 
By faith and prayer her rising fears control'd; 



THE MIKJ)'S JUBILKB. 23 

A well known voice she beard ere hope decayed,— 

* Rejoice, — 'tis I, your God, — be not afraid! 

* Set as a seal upon my heart and arm, 

* Beloved, nor earth nor hell shall do thee harm.' 



When WicklifF rescued from Oblivion's cave, 
The lamp which God to man in mercy gave, — 
The lamp which Jesus trim'd the Soul to guide 
Where ransom'd spirits near his throne abide. 
The foe arose in rage enflamed by fear. 
For then he saw the morning star appear. 
Whilst Papacy the furious chieftain own'd. 
His counsel foUow'd and the demon crown'd. 



Long had the Pope dominion claim'd aloud. 

Whilst kings obsequious, to his mandate bow'd, 

And perpetrated in Religion's name. 

Were deeds of blood, of violence and shame, — 

Such sacrilege as Omar might disown. 

And flames were lit to Vandal torch unknown; 

Thus Satan's power sustain'd by papal rage, 

Death's carnival prolong'd from age to age. 

Far, — far was felt the sacerdotal ire. 
By torturing rack and immolating fire: 
Yet, midst the terror, in the mountain's shade. 
The meek Waldenses to Immanuel pray 'd 5 



24 THE mikd's jubilee. 

And tho' the faithful servants of the Lord 
Were sought and slaughter'd by the Pontiff's sword, 
Unawed by death, unconquer'd by the flame, 
They sang hosannahs to their Saviour's name. 

The tempest ruthless, loud and louder hovvl'd, — 
Its spirit mitred and its furies cowl'd; 
The tyrant doubly arm'd and triply crovi^n'd. 
On man's celestial hopes with rancour frown'd; 
Implacable, with zeal the mind t' enslave, 
He even dared Almighty wrath to brave; 
Thus Satan held secure in papal Rome, 
A spirit fit with him thro' earth to roam. 

This world's vile god the bold usurper reign'd. 
Whilst men were held in papal bondage chain'd; 
The carnal mind subservient to his cause. 
Paid homage sanction'd by infernal laws; 
His pagan legions base without disguise. 
His warrior prophet with his code of lies, 
And priestcraft yet of subtlety more rife. 
Urged war vindictive 'gainst the Prince of Life. 

Fierce was the onset, yet on Zion's Rock, 
Unmoved the Church withstood the fearful shock; 
Her friends were few, her walls obscured by night, 
But He who built her still sustain'd the fight; 



TH£ mind's jubilee. 25 

He spake, and hell's terrific armies quail'd. 
Their strength was scathed and Satan's project fail'd; 
The dawn was near, his time he knew was brief. 
And Mind enslaved would find by Truth relief. 

Long" whilst Rehgion, wrap'd in ignorance, slept. 
The foe in peace his willing captive kept; 
The Papacy its bloody banner rear'd. 
Nor mighty, nor Almighty vengeance fear'd: 
But the Most High who hates oppression, saw 
The bold blasphemer thus impinge his law; 
The time was come for slumbering saints to wake, 
When Truth omnipotent the spell should break. 



The Only Wise who form'd th' immortal Mind, 
The means ordain'd the captive to unbind; 
The laws of science operate his will. 
His providence elicits human skill; 
'Twas He the magnet's attributes disclosed, 
*Twas He the press to ignorance opposed; 
Thus He design'd o'er all the earth to send 
Truth's sacred transcript, man's perpetual friend. 



Hail, light illustrious — spirit quickening Truth ! 
Of age the comfort, guide of feeblest youth; 
'Tis thy pure beams to sinners doom'd to woe. 
Reveal their pewl and their Refuge show; 
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26 THE mind's jubilee. 

Thy lucid influence pierced the Mind's vile shroud. 
And fix'd the bow in Superstition's cloud, — 
Sweet bow of promise, hope's reviving gleam. 
The Mind's deliverer from delusion's dream. 

On Luther's soul the Holy Spirit moved,— 
The monk uncowl'd a faithful witness proved; 
Tho' kings were prostrate at the Pontiff's throne. 
And all their treasures he might call his own? 
Tho' he the homage of the world might claim,- 
And write in heaven, or blot th' offender's name, — 
Yet there was One who, with his breath could blast 
The vaunting foe, and bind e'en Satan fast. 

When God to free the Mind reveal'd his arm. 

The Lion roar'd a loud, but vain alarm; 

The dauntless Luther with th' enlighten'd band 

Of firm reformers heard the Lord's command; 

They with the Spirit's sword his cause maintain'd. 

The Truth affirm'd, and victory obtain'd; 

The prisoner then to liberty restored. 

Cast off the yoke and Christ the Lord adored. 



Reason her empire in the Soul resumed, 
By Revelation's sacred hgbt illumed; 
Whilst Satan claiming still the Mind to cliain, 
Pursued the victor, but pursued in vain; 



THE mind's jubilee. 27 

With sanguinary zeal the foe no more 
Could wield the key or bar the dungeon door; 
His plans defeated, his devices foil'd, 
Enerved the despot from the field recoil'd. 

Released, th' aspiring Soul by faith could soar. 
And wing'd with love her gracious Lord adore, 
On earth, with saints above, deliverance sing. 
And give the glory to her Saviour King; 
*Twas to the Mind the pledge of Power Divine, 
That Truth should yet in every nation shine. 
And saints in every chme rejoicing see 
A holy, peaceful, cloudless jubilee. 

Tho* Satan's empire shook and suffer'd loss, 
Still war he waged against Immanuel's Gross; 
O'er Europe far the gospel's rapid course. 
Amazed he saw and felt its mighty force; 
The blighted honors of the papal chair 
Claim'd first an interest in the demon's care; 
His aid might yet his ally's throne exalt. 
Or keep his remnant forces from revolt. 

His lying prophet's myrmidons he held, 
Nor yet his heathen provinces rebel'd; 
His strong delusions kept the carnal mind. 
In servile bonds to truth and reason blind; 



28 THE mikd's jubilee. 

And if no g-ospel ray might reach their eyes, 
And touch their souls to make thera truly wise, 
No fear he felt tho" papal zeal might win 
His abject vassals to the " Man of Sin." 

Truth ever radiant, limitless and strong, 
As He to whom its energies belong, 
Diffused a healthful influence o'er the earth. 
Refreshing realms of old and younger birth; 
And men of different climes to Christ return'd; 
Whilst ransom'd sinners holy mysteries learn'd; 
And saints in fellowship of purpose strove. 
To show the power of Truth by Christian love. 

Tho' bright, yet blemish'd was the hopeful scene, 
Unhallow'd spots upon the Mind were seen; 
Some mists of superstition yet remain'd. 
And bigotry religion's fervor feign'd; 
Yet was the Church, in Jesus' love secure, 
To rise efficient, beautiful and pure, 
Ordain'd, on earth to shine, tho' hell oppose, 
A type of heaven, — the terror of her foes. 

The age was yet to come for men to feel 
The power of Christian charity and zeal, — 
When saints should Christ's redeeming way prepare, 
By fellowship of action, faith and prayer, — 



THE miitd's jubilee. 29 

When all the followers of the Lamb of God, 
Should strive in love to send his Word abroad,— 
The distant heathen by its grace to save. 
From sin's destruction and a hopeless grave- 

Thanks be to God, the mystic veil 's withdrawn, 
And we behold that happy era's dawn; 
New lustre from the Cross new life imparts, 
And lingering shades recede from Christian hearts; 
Immanuel's friends regard His gracious call, 
To rise and free the world of Satan's thrall, 
And casting all inferior claims aside, 
Unite and press to the Redeemer's side. 



O, 'tis the springtide of prospective years, 

That glow'dthe theme of ancient holy seers, 

The bud and blossom of the wilderness. 

The genial warmth of Christian hearts confess; 

Whilst many a moral desert joyful sings 

His praise who reigns supreme the King of kings. 

And strikes thro' hostile governments that toil. 

His grace to frustrate and His counsels foil. 

The time is come, and millions will rejoice, 
To hear, till now unheard, the Saviour's voice; 
Lands long unbless'd the light of Truth has reach'd, 
And Satan suffers where the gospel's p reach'd; 
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30 THE MIWd's jubilee. 

To dying men is sent Salvation's lamp, 
And Mercy's heralds force th' oppressor's camp; 
Advancing" armies haste with pious speed, 
To nobly win the evangelic meed. 

Our land, of highly favor'd lands the chief, 
Will send to nations long debased relief; 
O'er oceans borne, the groan of mental pain 
Has reach'd our shores, nor is it heard in vain; 
The rites obscene — the blazing funeral pyre — " 
The heartless mother — the deserted sire. 
And voice of blood from many an infant's grave. 
Our pity claim, and intervention crave. 

Our Zion prosperous, by her Saviour blest, — 

His Bride, reclining peaceful on his breast, 

Will cheerfully, that dying souls may live. 

Her prayers, her wealth, her sons and daughters give: 

Of life's brief term and sacred duty warn'd. 

The saints will rise with holiness adorn'd; 

With willing minds and heaven-enkindled zeal, 

They'll meet with liberal acts the world's appeal. 

Blest be the heaven-approved devoted few. 
Who to their native land have bid adieu, — 
Their home, and friends beloved, and altars dear, 
To dwell in moral deserts dark and drear, 



THE MIND'S JUBILEB. 31 

There to revive the dying heathen race, 

By Christian love, thro' God's abounding grace, ■ 

And lustre shed bewilder'd souls to show. 

The path of life where joys perennial grow. 

In concert sweet with many a sacred throng, 
In unison of feeling, hope and song, 
Themselves,their work,the cause, 'tis Christ's, we'll bear 
Oft at the Throne of Grace with ardent prayer: 
And whilst our thoughts endearing memory brings 
To graves o'er which the angels spread their wings,— 
The graves remote, — we'll hear the voice of love. 
That bids us generous to the heathen prove. 

We dwell in peace on elevated ground. 

Where sacred streams, and flowers, and fruits abound, 

Where we to verdant heights may often rise. 

And thence descry our mansions in the skies; 

And shall we, heedless of the heathen's cry, 

In sin and darkness let the miUions die! 

No; — we'll not, shrinking to seclusion's calm. 

Let others, only, win and grasp the palm. 

Vast is the field where sin's sirocco sweeps, 
Wliere Death luxuriates 'midst the famish'd heaps; 
Where hideous fiends with human misery sport, 
And Satan holds his diabolic court: 



32 THE mind's jubilee. 

Whilst we this field of blood in thought survey, 
And for its conquest by Immanuel, pray, 
Our hands shall help to raise his banner high, 
And hearts the heathen world to save shall fly. 

We see in prospect, not illusive, scores 
Of ardent youth embark for pagan shores; 
Ask we from whence these hopeful bands arise? 
An angel sweetly with a smile replies, — 

* The Sabbath school has form'd their minds and given 

* These first fair fruits of Christian love to heaven, — 

* And Jesus sanctifies and sends them forth, 

* To tell in lands remote his matchless worth.* 

And thousands yet shall go, by love constrain'd, 
From Sabbath schools, for pious action train'd; 
They, where unknown a thousand rivers flow, 
Where souls unnumber'd writhe in mental woe, 
Shall far explore, — in deep dark realms of sin, 
The peaceful kingdom of their Lord begin; 
Unheard of nations shall the Truth receive, 
And Christ new triumphs by His Word achieve. 



The Covenant Tribes, long exiled, shall return, 
And faith's pure incense to J ehovah burn, 
Messiah Jesus own their Great High Priest, 
And keep with Christian love the gospel feast; 



THE mind's jubilee. 33 

And showers more blest than Hermon's healthful dew, 
The bloom of Jiidah's olive shall renew; 
Whilst Sharon's Rose rich fragrance shall diffuse, 
Nor Palestine again the grace refuse. 

All Asia, re-illumed with brighter rays 
Than e'er her cities knew in former days, 
Shall hail and bless the gracious Prince of Peace, 
Whose gospel gives the fetter'd Mind release: 
Where wily brahmins groveling souls beguile, 
Their veda muttering fabulous and vile, 
There Satan's blood-built fortress strong and high, 
Assail'd shall fall and thence his legions fly. 

Seeva thall cease inhuman rites to claim, — 
The Hindoo love to hear the Saviour's name; 
Chineslan millions freed, with spirits meek, 
Shall, in the Lord of Life salvation seek; 
The wandering Arab from his wild retreat, 
Shall come and worship at Immanuel's feet; 
The Tartar spurn the lama's fraud, and raise 
His heart to God in prayer and grateful praise- 

The Mussulman his alcoran shall leave, 
To learn of Christ and Truth Divine receive; 
Nor fires material shall the Persian charm. 
The Sun of Righteousness his soul shall warm; 



34 THE MINn'fcj JUBILEE. 

Armenia, Thibet, Burmah, and Cashmere, 
Shall list the gospel's gracious sound to hear; 
And Islands clustered in remotest seas, 
Shall feel its joy in every genial breeze. 

And shall not Africa, degraded long. 
Arise and sing Redemption's sacred song? 
Shall not the Day Spring from on high appear, 
Her sterile soil — her verdant plains to cheer? 
Yes; — from her coasts e'en to her mountains high. 
The sacred messengers ot Truth shall fly; 
Her dark interior shall the blessing know. 
And grace abound where Nile and Niger flow. 



Th' Egyptian, Abyssinian, and the Moor, 
The turban'd chief, and reprobated poor. 
In one communion taught, at Jesus' feet. 
Shall humbly kneel before his Mercy Seat: 
The slaver, murderous in his vile pursuit. 
No more shall Afric's soil with blood pollute; 
No more in bondage shall her children bleed, 
Redeem'd by Christ, they shall be free indeed. 

Where now deceived the meagre pilgrims rove, 
To mosque, pagoda, river, tomb, or grove, 
Or where misguided devotees of Rome, 
To merit heaven in painful penance come. 



THE mind's jubilee. 

There shall the messenger of peace be found. 
With oil to heal the sufferer's festering- wound,— 
There shall the minister of Jesus tell 
Of Him whose grace can save from sin and hell. 

Pagan and papal idols cast away, 

Abhor'd of God, shall moulderand decay; 

Things multifarious, multiform, and dread, 

By which to hell immortal souls are led. 

Shall cease to charm, delude, deceive, and blind. 

And captivate, and sway, and damn the Mind: 

In Christ shall men, with love and reverence, view 

The Living God, the only Wise and True- 

In every region known or yet unknown, 
Where never, or where once the light had shone. 
Truth shall pervade and Satan's empire fall. 
And millions crown Immanuel Lord of all: 
Then shall the loud and sweetly grateful strain 
Cheer every shore, and hill, and vale, and plain; 
Whilst gladsome echo with the breeze combined. 
Shall shout thetheme,— the jubilee of Mind. 

The prospect brightens, *tis no fancy frail, 
Such are the scenes which angels wait to hail; 
'Tis what Eternal Wisdom has ordain'd,— 
'Tis Paradise by man thro' Christ regain'd; 



35 



36 THB JVIIJfD's JUBILEE. 

From every isle, from earth's remotest nook. 

To Him shall sinners for salvation look j 

His Mediatorial kingdom shall embrace 

All heathen nations, sought and saved by grace. 

Behold the handful on the mountain top, — 
The precious seed ensures a copious crop, 
Its redolence and undecaying bloom. 
Yield to propitious winds a sweet perfume — 
The pledge of Zion's zeal — and favoring gales 
Waft it o'er seas to oriental vales; 
And palmy plains and verdant hills are blest. 
Where ransom'd sinners find in Jesus rest. 

Salvation's lamp with fire celestial lit, — 
The Truth Divine by inspiration writ. 
To dying men in almost every land. 
Is sent and proffer'd with a hberal hand; 
In almost every language now is read 
Thelaw of Him who once on Calvary bled; 
And Christ's ambassadors in his own name, 
In almost every tongue his love proclaim. 



Profusely scatter'd famish'd souls to bless. 
Like manna falling in the wilderness, 
The gospel tracts are seen, of life's pure fount 
Refreshing drops dispersed from Zion's mount; 



TUB MINS'S /UBIIiEB. 37 

The anxious pagan asks the heavenward road, 
And finds relief from sin's oppressive load, — 
Takes up his cross, of Jesus loves to speak, 
And urge his kindred life in Christ to seek. 

The heathen youth in hopeful clusters haste 

Incipient streams of mental good to taste; 

The Christian teacher points to Wisdom's brink. 

And adolescent minds the waters drink: 

Rescued from soil accursed young plants shall thrive. 

Their virtue spread and other plants revive; 

Nor long shall Satan wield the cruel scourge, 

Or reptile gods on flesh of infants gorge. 

Wheree'eron hideous shapes, with frantic cries. 
Deluded mortals fix their eager eyes, 
There shall the gospel's renovating grace, 
Possess the heart and beam in many a face: 
The little leaven must pervade the mass, 
The mustard seed all spreading trees surpass. 
The lightning flame from Zion's mount destroy 
The power of sin, and kindle sacred joy. 

O! 'tis the gospel's province to impart 
The balm Divine to heal the wounded heart. 
To cheer man's life and wing with joy the hours. 
Pluck up the thorns and plant his path with flowers. 



JO THB MIWd's JDBILEB. 

Dispel the noxious vapours from his tent, 
And g-ild his couch with sunshine of content, 
Calm every passion, soothe affliction's sigh. 
And guide his spirit op to bliss on high. 

The treacherous snares of vice the gospel breaks, 
From sorrows cup the bane and bitter takes. 
Domestic pleasures makes sincere and frank. 
And raises woman to her pristine rank; 
Far on the trackless deep this star appears. 
To dissipate the storm-worn seaman's fears; 
The desolate it comforts, guides the meek. 
And lights to heaven the souls who wisdom seek. 

E'en now the gospel, forth from Zion sent, 
Has joy diffused and Satan's kingdom rent; 
In many a cheerless land in climes remote, 
"Where souls lay wllher'd, by the tyrant smote. 
Is heard the gladsome song of sacred praise. 
The heathen feels the Truth's reviving rays. 
And bows devotional, released from guilt, 
His hope unearthly firm on Jesus built. 

The Greenland convert on the arctic wave, 
Has learnt the gospel's power his soul to save, 
Nor thinks t' adventure his immortal bark 
On shoreless waters fathomless and dark; 



THE mind's JUBILES. 39 

Nor they who dwell beneath the tropics fear 
The melancholy mandate now to hear, 
But clasping God's own Word to their frail breast. 
The peaceful spirit hastens to its rest. 

Who give to dying souls the living bread. 
And life's pure water shall themselves be fed; 
The favor'd lands where saints, sincerely wise. 
Unite their strength in holy enterprise. 
Intent the world's conversion to effect. 
And where Death reigns Redemption's cross erect, — 
These^shall be warm'd by Truth's enlivening beams. 
And fertilized with purifying streams. 



The Word of God shall yet all Europe sway, 
And adverse systems perish, from the way; 
'Twill have free course and will be glorified, 
Tho' kings oppose and infidels deride; 
Then kiss the Son, ye rulers, lest his wrath. 
Hurl you in judgment from Jehovah's path; 
Popes, princes, nobles, are to Him as dust. 
Who scorn in Christ the sovereign Lord to trust. 

Our Western hemisphere, nor last nor least 
In his regard whose grace will bless the East, 
Shall be relieved from every darkling shade. 
And beauteous shine in holiness array'd: 



40 THS MIKd's JUBItEK. 

Our happy realm, of Freedom's offspring first. 
From Life's pure spring- shall slake its moral thirst; 
The Church shall flourish branch in Christ the Vine, 
And growing millions taste its fruit Divine, 

Our schools of every grade, with new delight, 
Shall hail Immanuel source of mental light, 
And Science bring her choicest, brightest gem, 
A grateful offering for his diadem: 
Then gracious showers shall copiously descend. 
And saints rejoice, and trembling sinners bend, 
Whilst multitudes for pardoning mccy cry. 
And, lured by love, to Christ for refuge fly. 

Intemp'rance, priest of Death, no more shall stain 

Domestic altars with his victims slain; 

True piety shall add new charms to health. 

And fix a value on industry's wealth; 

No more the slave his manacles shall feel, 

The balm of charity his wounds shall heal; 

By pure Christianity shall be erased 

The stain abhor'd by which our land 's defaced- 

Our Indian tribes, dispersed, oppress'd and peel'd, 
A joyful harvest to the Lord shall yield; 
The remnant yet of this diminish'd race. 
Shall in Immanuel's kingdom have a place; 



TUB ISISrs's JUBILEB. 41 

First fruits of gracious culture gather'd in, 
Are hopeful triumphs o'er the power of sin; 
Salvation's heralds shall pursue the rest, 
To Rocky Mountains or the farther West- 

But there 's a land, — a realm of Mind unsaved,— 

A land by East and Western oceans laved; 

From the Carribbean to the southern Strait, 

Whole nations, unemancipated, wait 

And ask the Church from priestly tyrants free, 

To send to them the light of liberty; 

Some feeble warmth of freedom's flame they've felt, 

But only Truth their moral chains can melt. 

There where at first the papal ensign stood. 

To sanction deeds of avarice and blood. 

Long has the venal crozier been revered. 

And minds enslaved have bow'd and kiss'd and fear'd; 

Yet where the peering Andes pour their streams. 

And where the solar orb effulgent beams. 

Shall rivers flow from healing springs Divine, 

And Christ the Sun of Righteousness shall shine. 



Wheree'er the Amazon its course pursues. 
Where praries sparkle gem'd with tropic dews. 
Where flows La Plata or its sources rise. 
Where reigns the despot or the native sighs, 
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43 THl MIJfD'« JUBILB3E. 

Where Incas ruled, where Patagonians range. 
There shall the Truth effect a glorious change; 
Thence shall Delusion's damning fiend depart. 
For Christ shall free the Mind and sway the heart. 

With such expanding views can Christians sleep ! 
O ! 'twere enough to make the angels weep; — 
* Light of the world,* untrim'd, with lustre faint ! 
Can such sustain the hallow'd name of saint! 
Come, Holy Spirit, quickening power, prepare 
The friends of Christ his work and joy to share, 
Their hearts with light and grace endow to shine. 
The brilliant satellites of Truth Divine. 



Religion, — not the spectral counterfeit that needs 

Its crucifixes, relics, bones, and beads, 

And lingual prayers numerical and dull, 

And murky cell and monitory skull; 

Or pilgrimage, or mass — an impious cheat— 

For souls departed yet for heaven unmeet; — 

Not these expedients revenue to gain. 

To pamper priests and papal pomp sustain- 

Religion, spiritual, in Christ its root, 
Its foliage grace, and love its precious fruit, 
Its fragrance holiness, its shelter peace, 
Its strength and beauty ever to increase: 



THE mikd's jubileb. 43 

Religion, — Truth's pure influence in the Soul, 
The Holy Spirit's comfort and control, 
Faith in the Lord of Life and union blest, 
Hope, and the prospect of a sinless rest. 

'Tis this — the pledge of heaven, that glorious state. 

In which for Christians fadeless pleasures wait; — 

'Tis this in Christian character display'd, 

The cause and conquests of the Lord shall aid. 

Allure to Jesus souls by Satan bound. 

Dissolve their chains, the tyrant fiend confound. 

And lead the famish'd captives to the Lord, 

To taste the pure regalements of his board. 

On thine ambassadors, O, Jesus, pour 

An holy unction, — sanctify them more; 

High Priest above, O, send a living coal. 

To touch their lips and purify their soul; 

Then shall be known thro' those who preach thy Word, 

That Holt — holt — holt is the Lord ! 

Whilst'sanctity, and faith, and zeal, and love, ' 

Their high commission to the world shall prove. 

With thy own seal immutable, impress 
Their bond fraternal, — thus thy servants bless, — 
And bless'd by Thee, may they of grace impart, 
A benison to many a humble heart; 



44 THB mihd's jubilbb. 

Whilst in the panoply of heaven they stand, 
The moral conservators of our land, 
Firm to repel the infidel's attack, 
Or turn th' invading papal forces back. 

What thoug-hts revolve in minds of fiends in woe, 
Omniscient Saviour, thou alone canst know; 
Let not the mystic Beast our land pollute. 
Or on our soil thy right to reign dispute; 
The despot curb nor let his schemes succeed, 
Lest on the papal altar Freedom bleed; 
Thy saints revive and pour thy Spirit out. 
And Truth invincible the foe shall rout. 



His smile perfidious, his deceptious arts, 
Have won and yet may win unwary hearts. 
Nor Christians see with sleep-infected eyes. 
The blighting fiend in specious priestly guise; 
But when the saints from dangerous slumber wake. 
And weapons heaven-prepared with vigor take, 
Then shall the foe, repulsed, no longer boast. 
No more deride God's sacramental host- 



Father of Lights, from whom all good descends. 
May men in power be thy devoted friends. 
And make, obey, and execute the laws. 
With sacred reference to Immanuel's cause; 



THE mind's JUBILEK. 45 

with wisdom from above tiieir minds inspire. 
And quench in every breast unhallow'd fire; 
Then righteousness shall bless our country's fame, 
And cherish long the glow of freedom's flame. 

Check the wild warfare of Hcentious minds, 

Which neither judgments awe nor conscience binds, — 

Those who in dust would trample Truth, and rise 

And altars build to lawless power and lies, — 

The Sabbath blot, the Sanctuary close. 

And spurn the Bible and exalt its foes; 

Their purpose frustrate and rebuke their rage. 

Nor let their counsels stain our nation's page. 

Jesus the Lord in majesty and strength. 
O'er earth shall ride in all its breadth and length. 
Whilst seas, and isles, and continents shall bring 
Unnumber'd trophies to their conquering King: 
Then shall the world a lengthen'd sabbath keep. 
Nor saints, again oppress'd, despondent weep; 
And He, whom rebels now enraged, blaspheme, 
Confess'd in every zone, shall reign supreme. 

Then shall be left no region unexplored, 
No god, but God the Lord shall be adored; 
The scorners few and feeble, shall appear 
Redeemless slaves of envy, shame and fear; 



46 THE mind's jubiles. 

No tyrant spirit shall a sceptre sway, 
Nor war nor plague devoted victims slay; 
Death with retarded pace the earth shall tread, 
Nor graves demand, ere wintry age, their dead. 

Peace like a river clear and full and free. 
Thro' Zion's fields shall flow, and Discord flee; 
Nor shall a place — a sterile spot be found. 
For Strife to range on all the holy ground: 
The watchmen in their stations with one voice. 
Shall hail the Day-Spring and combined rejoice; 
And all in their respective wards proclaim 
Nought but the glory of Immanuel's name. 

Tho' storms unknown the halcyon calm precede. 
And hosts, in conflict for the Truth, may bleed; — 
Tho' antichrist the field embattled take, 
Resolved e'en Zion's sacred walls to shake; — 
Yet, He who sits enthroned above shall frown. 
And crush the foe and scathe the tyrant's crown : 
Then shall Redemption's song, by every tongue. 
And loud hosannah's to the Lord be sung. 



NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Page 17. 
Truth touch'd the mind, and idols prostrate fell. 

Such was the influence of Christianity in the first 
century, that Pliny, a Roman governor and distinguish- 
ed writer, in one of his letters, alludes to the fact, that 
the pagan temples had been almost deserted, that the 
sacred rites (pagan) had been long neglected, and that 
the victims required to be offered in the worship of 
idols had had but few purchasers. 

Although a number of pernicious heresies had sprung 
up and troubled the Church during the first and two 
succeeding centuries; and though through the medium 
of philosophical speculations, many gross errors and 
superstitions were introduced which injuriously affected 
the simplicity of "the faith which was once delivered to 
the saints;" yet the Church, whilst it remained unsecu- 
larized, retained enough of the legitimate character of 
Christianity to render it manifest that the kingdom of 
our Lord was not of this world. 



48 irOT£S XVD IllUSTIlATlOXS. 

Tho' oft his saints by impious hands were slain. 
After our Lord's ascension, the Church sujffered 
grievous and cruel persecutions, not only from the im- 
potent malice and anathemas of the adherents to the 
corrupted and decaying Jewish hierarchy, but also by 
the banishment, tortures and martyrdom of Christians 
during- the reign of the Roman emperor Nero and his 
immediate successors. Subsequently to the destruc- 
tion of Jerusalem by Titus in the reign of Vespasian, 
A. D. 70, the like persecutions were continued with 
but few temporary intermissions, with great severity 
until A. D. 311, when Galerius, whose cruelties to 
Christians had been exceeded by none of his prede- 
cessors, when in prospect of death, published an 
edict ordering the persecution to cease. During the 
ages preceding this period, the Apostles, and a great 
number of the most distinguished advocates and de- 
fenders of the truth, as also a numerous band of the 
faithful followers of Christ were put to death. 

Page 18. 
One strange event of unauspicious birth. 
Constantine, called the Great, was invested with the 
imperial purple, and saluted as emperor in the western 
division of the Roman empire, A. D. 306. He is said to 
have been from his youth favorabb* disposed towards 
the Christians. Immediately on his ascending the 
throne, after a civil war, he, together with his col- 
league Lucinius, of the eastern division, published an 



IfOTES AJTD ILLtrSTHATlOXS. 49* 

edict, A. p. 312, granting' to Christians **full power of 
living- according' to their own laws and institutions." 
He embraced Christianity in consequence, it is said, (jf 
his having seen a miraculous cross in the air, as he was 
marching- with his array towards Rome. Soon after- 
wards he established a system of government for the 
Church, adapted to and blended with the civil polity. 
In this union of the Church with the imperial govern- 
ment, was doubtless laid the foundation of that system 
of intolerance, which was very soon afterwards mani- 
fested by sacerdotal persecutions. And from the 
same origin sprang also the legalized corruptions and 
iniquities which rapidly multij)lied, and which conti- 
nue to prevail in the Roman Catholic Church, and to 
polkite and plague the world unto the present day. 
Previously to this union, iniquitous and ambitious ec- 
clesiastics, however much disposed they might have 
been to inflict corporal punishments on those whom 
they proscribed as heretics, or to extirpate such as 
dared to exercise their own judgment in regard to 
religion, yet, their political circumstances limited their 
power, so that it could be exercised, as it ever ought 
to be, only ministerially, in censures and excommuni- 
cations. But now, it was not difficult for subtle and 
aspiring prelates to obtain imperial enactments, which, 
in their application to ecclesiastical cases, would so fa- 
vor their designs, as that whenever a spiritual court 
should condemn any one who was obnoxious to their 
displeasure, the delivering of him oyer to the secular 



50 NOTES XyiH ItLUSTllATIONS. 

magistrate wmild insure his suffering' of the penalty 
which they desired should be inflicted. It was accord- 
ing to this arrangement that most of the persecutions 
by the Papacy^ and especially the infernal barbarities 
of the notoriously bloody Inquisition were instituted 
and practised; and it is on this ground also that Roman 
Catholic champions, in our country,, have the effrontery 
to attempt to exonerate the Papacy from the charge of 
persecution and cruelty. 

Page 19. 
Christianity innumerous votaries found. 
Historians are ot the opinion, that although not a 
few spiritual conversions may have been effected by 
the power of Divine Truth; yet, that 'the weighty ar- 
guments which moved \\ hole nations, as well as parti- 
cular individuals to embrace Christianity, were the vic- 
tories of Constantine, the fear of punishment, and the 
desire of pleasing this mighty conqueror and his im- 
perial successors. The prospect of honors, and the 
desire of obtaining succour against their enemies from 
the countenance of Christians or from the supposed 
miraculous influences of their religion, were doubtless, 
in a great measure, the motives which facilitated the 
rapid and extensive propagation of nominal Chris- 
tianity.' The simplicity and ignorance of the people 
generally, furnished to a corrupt priesthood a favor- 
able occasion for the exercise of fraud in contriving 
false miracles adapted to the credulity of unenlightened 



NOTES AND ILLLSTRATIOAS, 51 

minds. By these, as connected witli a system of reli- 
g-ion which was so modified and corrupted as that it 
exhibited features, striking-ly analagous to the pagan 
superstitions, the most formidable difficulties in the 
way of converting-, or rather or' proselyting", were re- 
moved. That in modern times the Roman Cathohc 
missionaries continue to avail themselves of this latter 
facility, they undisguisedly acknowledge. 

Page 20. 
Ambition govern'd, Emulation strove. 

** From the time of Constantine and Eusebius, when 
the Church becoming more corrupt, was visited with 
riches and honours, diocesan, and, as the canons of the 
council of Nice discover^ a metropolitan episcopacy 
prevailed. Bishops seem to have stepped up to a more 
elevated seat, and to have been accounted henceforth 
of a higher order. They were the pohtical friends of 
Constantine, and treated by him with discriminating 
attention. When he sent orders to Chrestus, bishop of 
Syracuse, summoning him to a synod, he directed him 
to associate with himself two of the second bench, at his 
own election, and also to bring three servants, all at 
the public expense." 

Wilson's Prim. Gov- of Chr.. Churches- 

Eusebius was bishop of Csesarea.- He was a courtier, 
and the distinguished and familiar favorite of Constan- 
tine. He was regarded by Jerome as a defender and 
standard bearer of Arianism, Photius also calls him an 



53 



UrOTES ANB IttUSTUiTIOirS. 



Arian blasphemer. It is said of him that he denomin- 
ated Christ "a philosopher and a truly pious man;'* 
and spoke of Christianity as a restoration of the ancient 
religion of nature, and a substitution of moral virtues 
In the place of bloody sacrifices. 

As from Immanuel forged traditions taught. 
The Papacy, by a decree of the Council of Trent, in- 
cludes as canonical among what it terms "the Holy 
Scriptures," the following apocryphal writings, viz. — 
1 and 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, 
Baruck, and 1 and 2 Maccabees. The same Council 
also declares that Divine Truth is contained in "unwrit- 
ten tradition. " 



-lying wonders wrought. 



Dr. Mosheim (Ecc. Hist. cent, iv.) says that ''Quan- 
tities of dust and earth brought from Palestine and 
other places remarkable for their supposed sanctity, 
were handed about as the most powerful remedies 
against the violence of wicked spirits, and were sold 
and bought every where at enormous prices. * • * 
Rumours were artfully spread abroad of prodigies and 
miracles to be seen in certain places (a trick often prac- 
tised by the heathen priests) and the design of these re- 
ports was to draw the populace, in multitudes, to these 
places and to impose on their credulity. These strata- 
gems were generally successful." 

That similar practices have continued and are yet re- 



NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 53 

tained In the Roman Catholic Church, even to the pre- 
sent day, Is well known. In popish countries these 
deceptions are often not only blasphemous, but often 
ludicrous, in the view of enlig^hiened observers. 

Pontiffs the seat and power of God assumed. 
TJavalllac, a Romanist, says, •' To make war ag-alnst 
the Pope is to make war against God — seeing that the 
Pope is God, and God is the Pope!" Pope Clement 
VII., in connexion with his cardinals, writing- to King 
Charles VI., says, "as there is but one God in the 
heavens, so there cannot, nor ought to be of right, but 
one God on earth." It is the canon law of the Roman 
Catholic Church "that the Pope, who was called God 
by Constantine, can neither be bound nor loosed by 
any secular power, — for It is manifest that God cannot 
be judged by men!" Pope Nicholas in writing on the 
dignity of the Pope, says, ** He is a God, and there- 
fore men cannot judge him!" Many other similar il- 
lustrations might be presented, but these may suffice. 

Crime sanctified and saints to torments doom'd. 
Among numerous instances which furnish practical 
illustrations of the perversion of moral principle as the 
fruit of the papal system, Is the case of John Huss of 
Bohemia, a man of the highest reputation for the sanc- 
tity of his manners and his ardent piety, as also for his 
erudition and eloquence. This faithlul servant of God, 
on account of his zeal in opposing the corruptions of 
E £ 



54 WOTES AND IlLTJSTRATIOirS. 

the clergy, and his endeavours to promote the cause of 
truth was, on an accusation brought ag-ainst him before 
the tribunal of Pope John XXIII., at Constance, ex- 
pelled from the communion of the church. Although 
the emperor Sigismund had solemnly eng-ag-ed to pro- 
tect him on his journey to Constance, and during his 
stay in that place, and until he should have returned to 
his own country; yet, in violation of this royal pledge, 
Huss was cast into prison, and burnt alive for his fidel- 
ity to the cause of Christ; whilst the emperor, on the 
ground of the doctrine held by the Roman Catholic 
Church that no faith is to he kept with heretics, was ab- 
solved from his obligation. The blood that has been 
shed, and the impious frauds and detestible crimes which 
have been perpetrated under the sanction of this rule, 
and which have even been regarded as meritorious on 
the ground that in promoting the interests of the Pa- 
pacy, the end sanctifies the means, cannot be estimated. 

Bargain'd the bliss of heaven, &c. 
The doctrine of indulgences was an invention which 
resulted from the avarice and cupidity of a corrupt 
priesthood. It was founded on the assumption that, 
" There actually existed an immense treasure of merit 
composed of the pious deeds and virtuous actions which 
the saints had performed beyond what was necessary for 
their own salvation (called works of supererogation,) and 
which were therefore applicable to the benefit of 
others; — that the guardian and dispenser of this pre- 



■KOrZS A3TD ILLUSTllATIOITS. 35 

clous treasure was the Roman PontlfF; and that of con- 
sequence he was empowered to assign to such as he 
thought proper a. portion of this inexhaustible source of 
merit, suitable to their respective guilt, and sufficient 
to deliver them from the punishment due to their 
crimes.*' Indulgences were first sold by and for the 
profit of the bishops, and they remitted only the penal- 
ties inflicted by the church. But in the 12 ih century 
the monopoly of this lucrative trade was assumed by 
the pontiff. Indulgences were then authoritatively ex- 
tended even to theabohshing- of the punishments which 
in a future state were reserved for the workers of ini- 
quity. Those which were vended by Tetzel, the 
pope's agent, assured the purchaser *' when you die, 
the gates of punishment shall be shut, and the gates of 
the Paradise of delight shall be opened; and if you shall 
not die at present, this grace shall remain in full force, 
when you are at the point of death." This traffic is 
still carried on, in all countries, to the greatest extent 
that surrounding circumstances will permit. It was by 
the profits of this trade in men's souls that Leo X. was 
enabled to build an apostolic edifice in Rome, at the cost 
ofg60,000,000. 

Page 21. 

And worship'd pictures, images and bones. 

Dr. Mosheim (iv. cent.) says that ** certain tombs 

were falsely given out for the sepulchres of saints and 

confessors; the list of saints was augmented with ficti- 



56 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 

tious names; and even robbers were converted into 
martyrs. Some buried the bones of dead men in cer- 
tain retired places, and then affirmed that they were ad- 
monished by a dream, that the body of some friend of 
God lay there Many, and especially monks, tra- 
velled throug-h the different provinces, and not only 
sold, with the most frontless impuddnce, their fictitious 
relics, but also deceived the eyes of the multitude with 
ludicrous combats with evil spirits or genii." 

The venerable Bishop White, of the Protestant Epis- 
copal Church in Pennsylvania, in a recent publication 
remarks, that " as imag-e worship was sanctioned by the 
Council of Trent, a Roman Catholic cannot consistent- 
ly bring" it into question; but it must be held in op- 
position to tradition during" at least five hundred 
years." 

Enchantment's spell, and hell's pestiferous breath. 
•• What were they who achieved 
A sway beyond the greatest conquerors, 
Setting their feet upon the necks of kings, 
And thro' the world, subduing, chaining down 
The free immortal spirit? Were they not 
Mighty Magicians^ Their's a wondrous spell. 
Where true and false were, with infernal art. 
Close interwoven?" — Rogers' Italy. 

Adopted Pagan rites as Christian forms. 
Historians ascribe the invention of a purgatorial fire 
for departed souls, as also the celibacy of priests, the 



2irOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 5!7 

worship of images and of relics, and an enormous train of 
different superstitions which were gradually substituted, 
and continue in tlie Roman Catholic Church, in the 
place of true religion, to a preposterous desire of imitat- 
ing the pagan rites, and of blending them with the Chris- 
tian worship. * The public processions and supplica- 
tions by which the pagans endeavoured to appease 
their gods, were, as early as the fourth century, adopt- 
ed into+he Christian worship, and in many places, cele- 
brated with great pomp and magnificence. The vir- 
tues that had formerly been ascribed to the heathen 
temples, to their lustrations, to the statues of their gods 
and heroes, were now attributed to Christian churches, 
to water consecrated by certain forms of prayer, and to 
images of holy men.* 

Page 23. 
When WickliiF rescued from Oblivion's cave. 
John Wickliff, an Enghshman, was professor of Di- 
vinity at Oxford, and afterwards rector of Lutterworth. 
He was removed from the University A. D. 1360, by 
the Archbishop of Canterbury- His crime was his ha- 
ving opposed tlie monkish mendicants, and venturing 
gently to reprove their patron the Pope. He appealed 
to Pope Urban V., who confirmed the Archbishop's 
sentence. He afterwards in his sermons and writings 
attacked all the orders of monks for their scandalous 
irregularities, and also the pontifical power and other 
ecclesiastical abuses. Detesting the superstitions of 



58 NOTES A^n ILLUSTIIVTIONS. 

the times, he contended against and refuted the absurd 
notions which were g-enerally received in religious mat- 
ters. He exhorted the hi'wy to sliidij the sacred scrip - 
tur£Si and that their perusal might be more extensive, 
he translated, the Bible into E)7glish, A violent prosecu- 
tion was instituted against him by the exasperated 
monks. But after the decease of Gregory XI., pro- 
ceedings against him were suspended for some time, on 
account of there then being two infallible successors of 
St. Peter opposed to each other. As soon however as 
this infallible controversy was settled, the process against 
WickllfF was revived, and his opinions were condemn- 
ed as heresies. How this reformer escaped martyrdom 
history does not inform us. He died peacefully, A. D- 
1387. He lias sometimes been denominated the " morn- 
ing star of the reformation." He left many followers 
in England, who were persecuted by the inquisitors 
and other agents of papal vengeance; and in 1415, 
thirteen years after his death, his opinions and his 
memory, were, by a decree of the CJouncil of Con- 
stance, condemned, and his bones were dug up and 
publicly burnt. To ascertain what spirit instigated the 
pontiffs and monks who participated in these acts, it is 
not difficult. 

Long had the Pope dominion claim'd aloud. 
Pope Innocent IH. says, " The church, my spouse, 
is not married to me without bringing me a dowery; she 
has given me the mitre for the piiesthood, and the 



KOTtS AUD 1LLVSTBATI0W3. 59 

crown for the kingdom — making- me Lieutenant of Him 
who hath written on his vesture and on his th gh, King- 
of kings and Lord of lords. 1 enjoy the plenitude of 
power, li^at others may say of me, next to God, uut of 
his fulness we have received." — llinerar. Ital. part 2. de 
coron. Rom. Pon. — (as quoled by Breckinridge in 
cont. with Hughes.) 

Page 23—24. 
The meek Waldenses to their Saviour pray'd. 

The Waldenses and Albigenses, op as they were call- 
ed the Vaudois on account of iheir residing in the val- 
leys, are said by historians to have for several centuries 
been distinguished for their dissent from the Papacy, 
but were little noticed. Towards the close of the 
twelfth century however, Peter Waldo, or Valdo, who 
had been a merchant in Lyons, espoused the cause of 
this obscure people. He was a man of wealth and ta- 
lents, and by his influence and exertions was so instru- 
mental in reviving their evangelical system as that from 
him they derived the name by which they from that 
time have been generally known. 

Dr. Scott, in his commentary says of this people,'that 
**they had the true gospel among them; avowed its ev- 
erlasting obligations and excellency; opposed it to the 
authority of popes, councils and persecuting princes; 
declared the pope to be antichrist; propagated their 
doctrines with zeal and success, and multiplied into a 
vast number of churches. And after immense slaugh- 



60 NOTES AND ILLUSTllATIONS. 

ter had been made of them by persecutions and bloody 
wars, they still retained their tenets; and being" dispers- 
ed into other countries, they rapidly carried the ever- 
lasting- gospel with them; so that the Lollards in En- 
gland, and the Bohemians, and many others in differ- 
ent places seem to have principally learned the gospel 
from them; and the reformation itself appears to have 
sprung from the seed which they sowed, and watered 
with rivers of blood. " 

Dr. Mosheim remarks that "the purity and simplici- 
ty of that relig-ion which these good men taught; the 
spotless innocence which shone forth in their lives and 
actions, and the noble contempt of riches and honors 
which was conspicuous in the whole of their conduct 
and conversation appeared so eng-ag-ing- to all such as 
had any sense of true piety, that the number of their 
disciples and followers increased from day to day. They 
accordingly formed religious assemblies, first in France, 
and afterwards in Lombardy, from whence they propa- 
gated their cause throughout the other provinces of 
Europe with incredible rapidity. The sincere piety 
and exemplary conduct of the Waldenses show plainly 
enough that their intention was to revive the piety and 
mamiers of the primitive limes, and to combat the vices 
of the clergy, and the abuses that had been introduced 
into the worship and discipline of the church." 

Dr. Wilson, in his '* Primitive Government of Chris- 
tian Churches," remarks, that " the persecutions of the 
Piedmontese and Waldenses in the va.Ueys of the Alps 



irOTES Amu ILtUSTHATIOirS. 61 

and also in France, were scarcely second to any that 
have been known in the world." 

Page 24. 
His warrior Prophet with his code of Ues. 
The impostor Mahomet of Mecca in Arabia, under 
pretence of extraordinary sancuty retired to the cave of 
Hera, A. D. 606. This seclusion it is believed was for 
the purpose of maturing' a plan which was designed to 
supplant not only paganism, but also all other systems 
of religion; for in AD. 612, he declared that he was Di- 
vinely commissioned to destroy polytlieism and idolatry, 
and then to reform first the religion of the Arabians, 
and afterwards that of the Jews and the Christians. He 
was a man of wealth and of very considerable mental 
energy, and it is supposed that during his retirement of 
three years, he acquired the knowledge of letters, 
although he has been represented as illiterate. Having, 
with the assistance either of an apostate Jew, or of Ssr- 
gius, a degraded monk, given a law called the Alcoran, 
which was adapted to the corrupt nature of man, and 
intended to supersede the Word of God; and having, 
together with his influential relations, secured a multi- 
tude of adherents, he successfully persevered, by force 
of arms, in propagating his new religion. His project 
was to establish an empire; and his rapid victories over 
those who opposed liis career enabled liim so to accom- 
plish his design, as that before his death, he was master 
of all Arabia, and several of the adjacent provinces. 



62 KOTES AND 1LLUSTKATI058. 

Page 26. 
On Luther's soul the Holy Spirit moved. 
Martin Lather, a native of Alsleben in Saxony, was i 
monk of the Augustinian Eremites, who were one o 
the mendicant orders. He was professor of Divinity ii 
an academy which had been erected at Wittemberg b^ 
Frederick at this time elector of Saxony. Maximilian I 
was king- of the Romans, and Leo X. was the Roman 
pontiff. John Tetzel, a Dominican monk, being em 
ployed to sell the pope's indulgences, which professec 
to administer to the purchasers ' remision of all thei 
sins, past, present, and to come, executed his commis 
sion with matchless insolence, indecency, fraud, anc 
daring impiety, even derogating from the efficiency o 
the merit of Christ. This roused Luther's indignation 
and induced him publicly and boldly on the 30th o 
September, 1517, to warn the people against such im 
pious delusions and extravagant extortions, and to point 
out the pope as a participator in the iniquity of thus se 
ducingthe people from trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ 
on the ground of whose atonement, onl}'', sinners can ob' 
tain pardon. It was this opposition to the wicked traffic 
which was the commencement and foundation of the 
religious revolution vi^hich humbled the grandeur of the 
arrogant pontiffs, and in a great measure eclipsed theii 
glory.' To the history of this and the subsequent OC' 
currences, the happy results of which are deeply inter- 
esting to all evangelical protestants, no one who justly 



3fOTES A'Sn ILLUSTRATIONS. 63 

appreciates the freedom of the mind ought to be a 
stranger . 

Associated with the name of Luther, those of Melanc- 
thon, of Calvin, ot Cai'lostadt,and otlurs, cotemporaries 
and co-workers, under the Divine blessing, in happily 
achieving the reformation, will ever be held in grateful 
remembrance by the friends of Christian liberty. 

The Lion roar'd a loud but vain alarm. 
Pope Leo X., perceiving tliat the heresy of the Saxon 
reformer was rapidly extending and acquiring strength, 
was roused from his indifference to the contumacy of 
the obscure monk. This pontiff* having through his 
agents, first by authoriiy and then by subtlety endeavor- 
ed to reclaim the apostate, but failing of success, issued 
his mandate commanding his spiritual subjects to ac- 
knoA'ledge the pope's power of "delivering from all the 
punishments due to sin and transgression of every kind.** 
And on the 15th of June, 1520, the incensed pontiff* 
hurled the thunder of his anathemas against his adver- 
sary, by issuing out a bull in which forty-one pretended 
heresies, extracted from Luther's writings, were solemn- 
ly condemned, his writings ordered to be burnt, and he 
again summoned, '*on pain of excommunication, to 
confess and retract his pretended errors wiihin the space 
of sixty days, and to cast himselt on the clemency and 
mercy of the pontiff*." But the intrepid reformer, undis- 
mayed by papal terrors, voluntarily withdrew from and 
publicly renounced the jurisdiction of the Roman hierar- 



64 SOTES AKD ILLUSTRATIONS^ 

chy; and, in the presence of a great multitude of peo- 
ple, forn^.ally committed to the flames both the pope's 
bull, and the decretals and canons relating- to the pope's 
supremacy. 

Pag-e 29. 
O, 'tis the spring-tide of prospective years. 
Many respectable writers reckon the commencement 
of the prophetic term " a time, times, and the dividing 
of time," (in Uanl. and Rev.) from the year 606 when 
the infamous emperor Phocas conferred on the pope 
the title of universal bishop; and they interpret the 
above prophetic term to mean three years and a half, 
each year to consist of 360 common years, this number 
answering to the like number of days in a year, accord- 
ing to the diurnal rotation of the earth. By this com- 
putation they fix the period of the entire destructioh of 
the papal abomination, together with that of the Ara- 
bian impostor Mahomet, which also began in the same 
year, at A. D. 1866. Other learned writers, by comput- 
ing from about the middle of the eighth century, or 
when Pepin king of France gave to the pope the terri. 
tories in Italy, by which the Roman See became in fact, 
and has hitherto continued, a temporal principahty, 
place the period of the commencement of the milleni- 
um more distant The Rev. Dr. Bogue of Gosport, 
England, in a series of discourses on this anticipated 
era, supposes that the thousand years of the purity and 



KOTES AND ILIXJSTRATIONS. 65 

glory of the church, and of peace, prosperity and holi- 
ness throughout the world, will commence about A. D. 
2000. 

Pag-e 31. 
We dwell in peace on elevated ground. 
In a spirited address on " Practical Preaching"," de- 
livered on the 10th of Sept. 1833, before the "Porter 
Rhetorical Society in the Theological Seminary, Ando- 
ver," the author remarks, that " There is scarce a village 
or town in this country, that cannot recall in its history, 
the deeply interesting events of a revival of religion. 
There is scarce a church that lifts its spire to heaven, 
amid surrounding forests in our western lands, that does 
not become filled with worshipers amid the thrilling 
scenes of such a work of grace. Along the hill, and the 
vale; in the deep and solemn grove, the voice of prayer 
and praise shall be heard; the Spirit of God shall diffuse 
solemnity over the scattered population; and the village 
shall rise, consecrated as a hallowed spot, by the intense- 
ly interesting scenes produced by the presence of the 
Spirit of God. Our land is thus a hallowed land. Our 
villages and towns are thus by God himself, set apart to 
his own high and sacred purposes. One entire country 
becomes thus sacred, in the sublime purpose of spread- 
ing the Gospel around the globe. And every new vil- 
lage becomes an additional pledge, that God designs 
our land to be instrumental in sendingthe Gospel among 
all the nations of the earth." 
f2 



66 KOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS, 

In cortiiection with the preceding, the following senti- 
ments of the same writer should be recognized and 
cherished in the heart of every one who may desire to 
be a participator in the joy of those dehghtful and so- 
lemn scenes whicli identify a spiritual revival of true 
I'eligion. "There is no truth which so pei'vades and 
saturates a man's soul in the deeply affecting incipient 
scenes, and awful irapressiveness of a revival of religion, 

as that all help must come from God When 

is the time, in which men are most pungent, faithful, 
and full in their labours? In the midst of those scenes; 
and then does the soul take most fir m hold of this migh- 
ty task, of urging sinners to flee from the wrath that is 
to come. If the agency of the Holy Ghost was arbitra- 
ry; if his coming was merely to convince men that all 
their labors were idle and useless; then I admit that a 
sense of dependence would paralize all efforts. But 
this is not the place which the doctrine of the Spirit's in- 
fluence is made to occupy in such scenes." 
Page 38. 
And raises woman to her pristine rank. 

In Pagan and Mahammedan countries, in which it is 
computed that there is an unevangelized population of 
at least 600,000,000, all travellers and missionaries agree 
in stating that '* women are regarded as inferior to men, 
created only to be subservient to their wants and plea- 
sures, unworthy the companionship of man." The sa- 
cred books of Hindostan say *'In every stage of life, 
woman is created to obey. At first, she yields obedience 



irOTES AND ILLUSTRATIOWS. 67 

to her father and mother: when married, she submits to 
her husband: in old age, she must be ruled by her chil- 
dren. During her life she can never be under her own 
control." This obedience is, practically, the most ab- 
ject and debasing servility. 

The Greenland convert on the arctic wave. 

The Moravian brethren perseveringly labored in 
Greenland, under many discouragements, enduring pri- 
vations and exposed to extraordinary perils for seven 
years before they saw any hopefal indications of success. 
Since then their mission has been greatly blest to the 
people of that frigid region. By the accounts of the 
brethren, it appears that up to the year 1831, there had 
been 1750 baptised, several of whom had departed this 
life with a firm hope of eternal bliss through the atone- 
ment of Christ. 

Page 39. 
But clasping God's own Word to their frail breast. 

The rapid progress and the happy influence of the 
gospel among the people of the Sandwich Islands is 
without a precedent in the history of evangelical mis- 
sions. Among the many exemplifications of the power 
of Truth in supporting the Christian converts in the 
prospect of death, the following, of recent date, will 
be regarded with interest. The Rev. H. Bingham in 
giving an account of the last sickness and the death of 
Kaahumanu, queen regent of Honolulu, says that "She 
expressed her confidence in Christ, and represented 



68 SOTfiS -AXD ILIUSTRATIOirS. 

herself as having an unshaken reliance on him as her 
friend and Saviour. — She always appeared grateful 
for copies of any part of the Scriptures, and until she 
became too low to read, spent much time in reading 
the different portions of the New Testament as they 
were from time to time issued from the press." During 
her sickness the printing of the New Testament was 
completed, a copy of which, bound, being sent to her, 
•'she took the sacred volume in her hands, with great 
interest, turned it over and over to assure herself of 
what books it contained, and though she could no 
longer read, looked at it again and again, both inside 
and out, pronouncing it emphatically ' maitaiy* [excel- 
lent] wrapped it carefully in her handkerchief, laid it 
upon her grateful bosom, gently clasped her hands over 
it, and looked upward, as if she had received the pre- 
cious boon as a passport to glory." A few days after- 
wards, on the 5th of June, 1832, she remarked to Mr. 
B., "I am going now !" — He replied, *' Go in peace, 
leaning on your Saviour, £nd dwell with him for ever — 
may he receive your soul!" She then gently and 
peacefully closed her eyes, and fell asleep in Jesus.*' 

Page 42. 

And murky cell and monitory skull. 

A human skull is sometimes regarded as a valuable 

addition to the ordinary furniture of a monk's cell, and 

as peculiarly adapted to remind the anchorite of his 

own mortality. It is especially considered as an appro- 



NOTES 4.ND ILLUSTi^ATIOKI. 69 

propriate companion of the young and blooming' fe- 
male devotee, who, when the pomp, the solemn mum- 
mery, and the "rites adoru'd with gold," which were 
connected with her taking of the veil have ceased to 
exert their enchantments, she then awakes in her joy- 
less retreat — 

" Narrow and dark, nought thro' the gloom discern'd, 
Nought save the crucifix, the rosary. 
And the gray habit lying by to shroud 
Her beauty and grace." 

Such an one, having been captivated by the sorceries 
of the Papacy, and induced, professedly, to renounce 
the world, and to abdicate all the social enjoyments of 
life, — her relationships, and her charms, — 

"Feelings, affections, destin'd now to die, 
To wither like the blossom in the bud," 

she is required to grope her way to heaven through the 
cheerless mazes of superstition. By a heartless repeti- 
tion of forms of prayer to the Virgin Mary and depart- 
ed saints, either real or ficlitio is, in a language of 
which she may be ignorant, numbering her penitential 
task by her rosary or string of beads, she is taught to 
merit the bliss of the celestial world. 

Page 44. 
His smile perfidious, and deceptious arts. 
In this our land of civil and religious liberty, the 
champions of popery are peculiarly averse to the exhi- 



70 KOTES AND ILLUSTUATIOIfS. 

bition of the frauds and blasphemies with which that 
system is fraught, and by which, in countries less fa- 
vored, its dominion over the minds of men has been 
and is yet sustained. This aversion has been recently 
illustrated by the retreat, after having challenged 
the Protestant cause, of several distinguished Roman 
Catholic priests from the field of discussion, both in 
New York and Philadelphia, so soon as their oppo- 
nents. Dr. Brownlee in the former city, and the Rev. 
J. Breckinridge in the latter, began to cite accredited 
papal authorities to testify of the abominations of their 
own system. This conduct of those who, from office, 
should be best acquainted with the features and cha- 
racter of the mystic "Beast," seems to say, 
" It is a monster of such hideous mien, 
That to be hated needs but to be seen." 

Since the retreat of these champions, the advocates- 
of the cause seem to be very much amioyed and irri- 
tated by the presentations of the editor of one of our 
religious jounrals- Recently he has called the atten- 
tion of the community to a few of the wonderful mira- 
cles of some of their most venerated saints. But these 
**JiowerSj^* as they have been regarded by infallible 
popes, seem, in an American atmosphere, to be in 
bad odour; and those who are bound to hold them as 
infallibly precious, deem it unadvisable, at present, to 
expose them to the rude touch and heretical view of 
those whose minds are yet free to act and to judge by 
tlie lights of reason and revelation. 1 he editor who 



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has performed for the Papacy this thankless service, 
g-lves a correct view of its policy. He remarks that 
" this church, which is steeped in the blood of the 
saints, is at this moment making a bold and vigorous 
effort, by means of foreign gold, to bind our beloved 
country in its enslaving chains. To secure success, it 
is attempting to modify its character, and keep in the 
shade many of its revolting characteristics. With cha- 
melion facility it adapts its colour to the objects with 
which it is placed in contact, and the immutable church 
is of all things the most changeable. The bold doc- 
trines of Rome are softened to meet the temper of 
England and America; and dogmas which are openly 
avowed in the former place, are utterly denied in the 
latter countries, as constituting a part of the Catholic 
creed." 

But when the saints from dangerous slumbers wake. 
That revivals of religion are essential to the preserva- 
tion of the purity of the Church, and the prosperity of 
our Nation, is unquestionable. In view of the rapidly 
increasing and extensively spreading population, it 
must be obvious, that unless the manifestations of the 
gospel's redeeming power should be in proportion, 
formality, error, superstition and infidelity must be- 
come ascendant. Of such ascendency would be predi- 
cated the ruin of every thing on which are fixed the 
hopes of the Christian, of the philanthropist, and the 
patriot. In the Sabbath school system we recognize a 



72 irOTKS AWD ILLUSTRAl lOJfS. 

Divinely acknowledged constituent of the means of 
averting such a calamity. The peculiarly interesting 
responsibilities of the teachers should prompt tliem to 
fidelity, and excite them to aim at high qualifications 
for training the minds of those who are to be the im- 
mediate actors in reference to the millenial age. In 
regard to special and copious effusions of the Holy 
Spirit, no Christian can calculate upon personal irre- 
sponsibility. The relation of such effusions to the 
world's conversion, is a theme of thought which no 
pious heart would wiUingly dismiss; and not to have 
been instrumental in having brought even one sinner to 
Christ, would afford ground for a professor of religion 
to question his own interest in the Saviour. The re- 
vivals which have, in any section of our country, dis- 
turbed the kingdom of Satan and occasioned joy in 
heaven, may almost invariably be retraced to the ex- 
hibition of Christian character, in the ardent prayers 
and the efforts of God's people for the conversion of 
others, by Bible and tract distribution, pious conversa- 
tion, and other kindred means. Such manifestations have 
not infrequently had a tendency to animate the almost 
desponding ambassadors of Christ, so that with re-en- 
kindled zeal they have, with untiring diligence and ac- 
tivity, engaged in promoting the best interests of our 
beloved country, as inseparably connected with the 
glory and triumphs of the gospel. 



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